Kelser’s Matt Kozloski blogs from VMWorld 2012 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, August 26 to 30.

• Final Day @ VMworld - Best General Session of the Week - August 30, 2012 at 8:51 pm
  This morning, as folks stumbled in from a night of partying, we sat down to our final general session. This time is actually had little to nothing to do with VMware and cloud ... it was a series of 3 [...]
• VMworld 2012 Party: Morning Parade and Jon Bon Jovi - August 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm
  The VMworld 2012 party was pretty good. Bon Jovi drew quite a crowd - I really liked the opening act: Morning Parade. They did a pretty good job with the laser lights, especially for the venue. Bon J [...]
• The Lighter Side of VMworld - August 30, 2012 at 12:35 am
  In the lighter side of VMworld news, the show always has a rather whymsical side to it. This year, the partners got in on it too. Here are some of my favorite's:   Tintri: "Stop the LU [...]
• VMware Partners - August 29, 2012 at 5:20 am
  There are so many partners at VMworld this year. Not surprisingly, there is an abundance of flash-based storage vendors. Sometimes I wonder if they are there to market product to customers or to othe [...]
• Transform.  Broker.  Deliver.  | VMware Mirage and Horizon Suite - August 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm
  This morning's keynote is definitely worth watching on replay (www.vmworld.com). In a relatively entertaining way, VMware demonstrated some really cool features of application management, deskto [...]
• SMB's: Welcome to VMware. Some of vSphere 5.1's biggest features are for VMware's smallest customers! - August 28, 2012 at 12:28 am
  The announcement of vSphere 5.1 is a huge win for the SMB space. I'm so excited about these, that I'm about 2 seconds away from calling some customers to share the news! Considering the 3 h [...]
• Right here. Right Now. VMworld 2012. - August 27, 2012 at 6:11 pm
  VMworld 2012 started with movie-like introductions from partners like Cisco, EMC, and HP. Approximately 20,000 attendees gathered to a very dramatic kick-off with drums, lights, smoke, and mirrors (w [...]
• VMworld 2012 is here! - August 27, 2012 at 1:36 am
  Airplanes landing, taxis rushing to hotels, lines at the hotel check-in counter... There are banners up everywhere and lots of folks walking around with VMware badges. VMworld and its following has t [...]
• Virtualize Everything: Enter Nicira and VXLAN - August 24, 2012 at 11:01 am
  Having a background in very large scale VMware deployments, one of the pain points I encountered was "static" networking. I have no complaints about reliability, just flexibility. At some p [...]
• The cat is partially out of the bag: Licensing! - August 22, 2012 at 12:55 pm
  The rumor mill is alive and well - reports on CRN and VMware's own blog report license model changes. Is this setting the stage for a cloud battle royale between Microsoft and VMware? Whose clou [...]
• vSphere 5.0, View 5.1, and Windows 8 - August 21, 2012 at 5:56 pm
  Getting my lab ready for next week - wanted to run View 5.1 with Windows 8. If you have trouble with Windows 8, make sure you are running vSphere 5.0U1 and use the EFI BIOS with your Windows 8 VM (Bo [...]
• Sessions of Interest: HP's VSA with SRM and #NotSupported - August 20, 2012 at 11:21 pm
  Using SRM with the HP VSA - the HP VSA was formerly Lefthand's VSA and overall technology. It's a very impressive little product that runs the same code as the tried and true P4000 hardware [...]
• Something big? - August 20, 2012 at 2:06 pm
  Anyone think Microsoft's Server 2012 announcement has pretty coincidental timing? It's less than a week now, before I board a plane and head to San Francisco. I'm looking forward to th [...]